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Ok just thought I'd wade into the Newcastle manager debate.
Firstly Souness: I'm still not a fan at all to be honest. His man management leaves a lot to be desired as does his team selection. His transfer policy in general hasn't been to bad and this season if we do indeed sign Parker then that will be a good coup. Defence is an issue as is another striker so we'll see how we do with that. My main gripe with him is basically what ECG has hinted at. That he can't make Newcastle defend even simple situations. Most of our goals conceded are what pundits would call "silly goals". Easily avoidable and mainly due to either shocking individual errors or just general incompetence (failure to clear a simple ball, terrible offside traps etc). You don't need genius defenders for the majority of defensive work - it helps but simple organisation gets you most of the way eg Greece 2004.
Robson I was a great fan of. His transfer policy was more chequered (Carl Cort anyone?) but generally not too shabby. Bellamy and Jenas in particular were good buys. I would prefer him over Souness any day and feel with him around we would have done better last season no doubt. He was a managerial legend no matter what anyone says and a great man who was well respected. The selling of Solano was his downfall a fantastic player, who loved the club and a fan favourite who was shunned frequently and sold for fuck all.
Gullit was a joke. I can see where Dazz was coming from in that I thought he did ok at Chelsea. The buying of Dyer was an inspired one (though Dyer hasn't lived up to his full potential). Otherwise the team was bereft of invention and very poor.
As for Shearer as next manager well to me that has disaster written all over it. He's a local legend but going in to Newcastle as your first job is going to be terrible. The Geordies will turn on even Shearer if things aren't going well and will expect some sort of fairytale recovery under him. He could throw away his legendary status if it goes wrong and I think it will.
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